Saturday, May 21, 2016

These are very
interesting times in India and Indian politics. Didi and Amma both have another
term in their respective states. Assam and Kerela have new governments in the
form of BJP and LDF respectively and there is no price in guessing what is
common between all these election results.

Congress party that
has ruled(ruled rather than governed ) the country for more than half a century
are now in an embarrassing situation, their situation is similar to that of the
Lannister's they have good comrades but their king

Tommen(Rahul baba)
do not understand how to govern.

The Tamil Nadu
people generally elect an anti-incumbent government. Not this time, was it
because of the 2-G corruption label of
the DMK or their inability to name a chief ministerial candidate but their
association with congress did not help the party to defeat the corruption
ridden AIADMK government. In West Bengal Mamata didn’t give anyone a chance so
congress can be happy that they performed better than the general election but
their performance compared to the last state election is still a
disappointment. CPM led left actually won in Kerela where they again defeated
the congress and in Assam it’s a historic win for the BJP.

Congress won the
lowest seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha ever (just a meagre 44). Didn’t win a seat
in the Delhi assembly elections, lost in Maharashtra, only won in Bihar with
little or no influence on the government. This is after ruling the country for
10 years. They have their government just in 5 other states and they had a
scare in Uttarakhand recently.These are pressing time for the oldest party in
India, can they get away from the dynastic politics that is plaguing their
party? It is clear that their so called price Rahul Gandhi has not done
anything substantial for the party, he is all talk about revamping the party
structure and doing something different, he acts like that guy in your project
meeting who says that we have to do something cool and out of the box but has
no knowledge about the subject.

He is single
handedly responsible for collapsing the morale of the party's leaders and
workers who have devoted all their life for congress. He is like ANTI-Dhoni, he
has the ability to bring the worst with his team and give terrible results. It
is high time for the party to do what is right, someone has to be Jamie
Lannister for congress and stab this stupid prince(reference to mad king).

Rahul Gandhi has
become a national joke and with a great corruption record for UPA government he
has done a terrible job at saving the parties grace and countering the
opposition. When he is talks sometimes he seems out of place and sometimes
ridiculously stupid. The media even doesn’t seem to take him seriously either,
which should be a grave concern for the party.

The immense
influence of the Gandhi family on the congress party raises certain question,
are they so respected in the party that no one believes that the party can be
led by any other, does the family draws so much power(influence over judiciary
and other government organizations) that everyone is afraid to challenge them
or they have so much money so that they can buy their way out of any coup in
the party, the first one seems the least likely and with the news of stir in
the party it is clear that it is not just because of respect. The other 2
options are really interesting and even with the opposition in power, they
command so much influence. This is something to think about and ponder over.

Nowadays congress is
not even recognized as a credible opposition, the current government faces more
heat from the likes of Kejriwal than the congress party, the party has lost the
ability and will to attack the opposition and their structure is failing, it is
high time that congress does something.

The party might have
it is faults ,it tends to be more populist in policy making rather than
pragmatic and transparent, it is corruption ridden and their politics work on
maintaining the divide in the country, but still it is the only secular
alternative in the country. For this very reason they cannot be decimated . The
return of the mummies indicates high time for this old party to think and
reinvent itself and participate in constructive dialogue in the democracy and
present themselves as credible nemesis and alternative to right government led
by the BJP. If this doesn’t happen the right wing will become bolder and bolder
in their social professing and start enforcing their thoughts. Which in itself
creates a scary picture for the country. Don’t get me wrong I want the right
government to be in power and work on their economic policy. A strong
opposition will make sure that they concentrate more on economy and development
and suppress their extreme wing thought.

Congress party needs
an uprising, they need someone to challenge the status quo, they need a
Narendra Modi to change the party and modernize its working and start
connecting to the people of the country again. It is certain that Rahul Gandhi
is not the Azar Ahai that was promised, they need to introspect and save the
party, if not for the benefit of the nation but their own benefit.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

Disclaimer: All
character that are appear in this blog are almost fictional and this is a good enough account of the horrors I faced during the conversation mentioned with some exaggerations

If one see the birds
eye view of their life, they will notice that the life is defined by some
pivotal moments and rest everything is a follow-up to that moments decision or
incident. When we are young most of our pivotal decisions are made by our
parents and then we live up with the consequences, one perfect example would be
the great Rahul Gandhi, I think he and
now the congress party are both suffering from wrong decisions of his parents.

As a kid our life
outside home is always decided by the kind of friends we make at school and in
our neighborhood. Just imagine if Harry Potter had made a decision to be
friends with Draco Malfoy vs Ron Weasley; the story would have been completely
different. I am talking about all this bull shit because I had a pivotal moment
in my life recently with a very good friend ,so before getting to the point I wanted to give a backdrop
of what I am going to say unlike the fate of Jon Snow I want people to know
what is going on before they are stabbed(reference to an acquaintance ).

To begin with one of
the big pivotal moment of my life was when my parents decided that I am OK at
maths and need to pursue engineering, I don’t have many complaints in that
regard, I consider my parents to be at least smarter than Tushar Kapoors
parents while choosing career for their children (why is he still an actor ?).
So I became an engineer, got a job worked for a couple of years with hopes of
making big and starting my own company someday, but with no concrete progress
in that regard.

I was having a great
time with my college friends while working, we had money we had spare time , we
had resources and as you can imagine our spending decisions were as bad as that of Vijay Malaya, buying stuff we don’t
need, spending in places which made no sense and so on (though we didn’t have a
calendar ).

So coming to the point, some of my friends had girlfriends we used to tease them with
prospects of marriage as Indian government does of bringing in the black money
and ending corruption, both make the subject uncomfortable but with no
likelihood of either becoming true in the in the near future. As Joey from
friends will say "it is a Moo point". It's a cows opinion it does not
matter."

But one of friends
who recently made a girlfriend walks up to me one fine day and says Seth Suit
Silvale( get a wedding suit tailored ) and I remember I was stumped with no
response to give, two other friends of mine who were with me at that time had
the same expression on their faces. We were as confused as NewZeland is against
spin bowling we had no clue what the hell to do next.

Our feelings could
be described as that of all comedians who one day are told you are not allowed
to make Rahul Baba jokes. We had no clue what to do, it's like you are making a
joke that Sir Jadeja can take 10 wickets and score a triple century in the same
match, and he actually does, then the joke is not funny and the one cracking
the joke starts looking stupid. It is a pivotal moment in your life when the
jokes you crack can no longer be classified as jokes but they become somehow
reality.

You could see from
my friends face also that he was shit scared himself but he dodged the
inevitable for another year(postpones is engagement). The next pivotal moment was when my parents forced
me study further, apparently B tech is not a good enough qualification. So I
decided that I want to learn more in the technical domain and would like to
study analytics. This has opened more avenues for me and I think my parents
again forced me to a good decision (moral of the story, listen to your mom )

Now after the end of
my course I received another call from the same friend who already got engaged during the course of my
course. He was also interviewing for a company in the same city that I was also
planning to stay. During the first half of the conversation I was pretty
excited that my friend was coming to stay with me. But as soon as he
recommended that he wants to stay with me, it triggered my panic mode. I just
hung up the phone and it just dawned to me that all this is real now and he
will be married very soon and things are going to change for all of us. I was
as frightened as Suresh Raina is of short balls. I consider this as a pivotal
moment in my life and the prospects of him staying in the same place with me
scared the shit out of me. Though my friends created very interesting scenarios
for me and I really thank them for all their imagination but I am freaked out.

As the great Joker
said ' all you need is a push rest the gravity takes care'. My friend is now
pushed and he is going to fall. Only Batman can save us now.